Australia Needs Nuclear Power
Nuclear power is clean, safe, reliable, compact, competitive and practically inexhaustible. It is the ONLY source of energy that can replace coal, oil and gas, the non-renewable fossil fuel based energy sources in Australia. If we seriously want to prevent climate change, we HAVE to promote the more....

Chernobyl nuclear power plant
The biggest accident in history took place on April 26, 1986, when an explosion destroyed Number Four Reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. It left an area the size of New York State unsafe for humans to occupy and the city of 42,000 people was abandoned for the next 500 years. The a....

Nuclear Energy
Energy consumption is a necessity in the current day and age. Without it we would not be able to develop and maintain new ways to prolong the average life span. However, there is a catch to modern methods of energy development. Pollution created by energy producing plants has become a major looke....

Nuclear Energy
Nuclear Energy and the Environment In our society, nuclear energy has become one of the most criticized forms of energy by the environmentalists. Thus, a look at nuclear energy and the environment and its impact on economic growth. Lewis Munford, an analyst, once wrote, Too much energy is as fatal a....

Nuclear Fired Plants vs. Coal Fired Power Plants
There is a huge debate going on in the United States and it is about whether we should build more nuclear fired power plants or coal fired power plants. There are many sides to this argument including issues as big as the having another Chernobyl or Three Mile Island incident and some as minuscule ....

nuclear power
Nuclear Power: A Burden or a Blessing? When the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, the world was thrust into the atomic age. Nuclear power had become a reality. It promised to provide clean, efficient energy for centuries to come. Despite all of the promises, nuclear power ....

NUCLEAR POWER: IS IT TIME TO RE-ASSESS?
NUCLEAR POWER: IS IT TIME TO REASSESS? INTRODUCTION Though the development of Nuclear Energy as a power generation source did not take place until the mid -1950s; by the mid-1980s1, it seemed highly probable to be destined for an early departure. The two major factors which caused a decline ....

Nuclear technology
Throughout its relatively brief history the use of nuclear energy has been marked by contrast and sometimes controversy. We have had to weigh the answers to some hard questions: Does the global threat of nuclear weapons overshadow the benefits of peaceful nuclear technologies? Against this backdrop,....

Three Mile Island
The Three Mile Island Accident On the date of March 28, 1979 near Middletown, Pennsylvania, an accident occurred with the Three Mile Island Unit-2 nuclear power plant. This became known as the Three Mile Island Accident. It was the most serious U.S. commercial nuclear power plant accident in h....

What is a Chair?
What is a Chair? Imagine this, sitting back with your feet up in-front of the television, on your la-z-boy recliner with the remote in your hand. Does this sound appealing? For the majority of Americans, the answer is yes. This activity or inactivity takes part in the family room on the co....

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